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A Project-based Approach to Learning: Comparative study of two disciplines
Get PDFTo be successful in the competitive workforce markets,
graduates nowadays need more than just disciplinary skills
and knowledge. The changes in how businesses operate,
have brought about the need to develop highly skilled
workforce that is equipped with generic skills, such as
communication, creativity and problem solving, next to
their discipline-relevant knowledge. To provide these sets
of skills Universities are engaging in project-based learning
with industrial partners. Such modules should provide the
development of both sets of skills and thus produce highly
employable students. In this paper perceptions of
marketing and engineering students related to the projectbased
learning outcomes are explored, to determine how
they rate the acquisition of relevant employment skills in
the studied modules. The findings show, that the students
appreciate the project-based approach, specifically with
relation to their project management and team-working
skills, there is however improvement possible in the
discipline-based aspects of their learning
Book review of Downey, A. 2016. Critical information literacy: foundations, inspiration, and ideas. Sacramento: Library Juice Press.
No full textPlanet Earth is Blue
Get PDFPlanet Earth is Blue: reinterpreting Commander Hadfield’s images of Earth taken from the International Space Station, investigates drawing and written language in relation to current acts of representation and interpretation. Through undertaking a series of drawn reinterpretations of images of earth, the author attempts to visually describe that which she sees in the images while asking whether (or not) a drawing may convey an idea to an audience more precisely than words. In this practical process issues related to ways of seeing and interpreting in particular Pareidolia, Apophenia, Dyslexic Visual Literacy and Visualcy are investigated. The images examined in this paper were sourced and responded to through social media (Twitter), and although this author recognizes the significance of Twitter’s contemporary theatre of exchange, this is not an in-depth investigation into social media issues. Rather this paper intends to address contemporary imaging and how new points of view (earth viewed from space and technical advances in visual imaging), might impact contemporary ways of seeing and perceiving
Flipping the classroom in business and education one-shot sessions: a research study
Get PDFIn response to the challenge of maximising the effectiveness of one-off information literacy (IL) sessions, library faculty at Lehman College experimented with the flipped classroom model. This research paper reports the results of a multi-semester quantitative study of the flipped classroom in business management and education one-off sessions. Researchers explored two research questions: Do students in a flipped session demonstrate greater knowledge before their session than students in a control session? and Do flipped and control students demonstrate significant, positive improvement in knowledge after their session? The researchers used pre- and post-tests to evaluate two crucial aspects of the flipped model: pre-class homework assignments and in-class active learning. A significant finding supports the usefulness of homework assignments in preparing students for these library sessions. Both education and business classes also reported high degrees of satisfaction with the flipped model. The article provides evidence that the flipped classroom, especially those using the pre-class homework assignments, can be effective for student learning in IL one-off sessions
The baton is handed on...
Get PDFA year ago Eddie Norman was sitting writing his final piece
as Editor of this Journal. After ten years of excellent
service and leadership as Editor, he had finally decided to
hang up his pen – or maybe his keyboard. In that Editorial
he looked back over the ten years he had presided over
the Journal and reflected back on the fact that, at the point
he had taken on the role, the Journal had just been relaunched
with ‘International in its title’. In his last editorial,
Eddie analysed author contributions and ‘online’ journal
visits to see just how international the journal really had
become. During that first year (2005) there was clear
evidence that those publishing in the journal represented
an international group of researchers and scholars –
articles were from New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, the
USA and England – but the vast majority were from
England. Over the last ten years the balance has shifted.
In 2014, the Journal published 2 articles from Australia, 1
from Cyprus, 3 from Finland, 1 from France, 1 from
Iceland, 1 from Malaysia, 2 from the USA and 3 from
England. Online readership has grown and shown a
similar shift in balance – in 2010 there were 400 ‘serious’
visitors a month from 128 countries, in 2015 the numbers
had grown to nearly 800 ‘serious’ visitors from 167
countries
